By Jay Whipple
Trend Magazine Online™
Great Fish!
Trend Magazine Online™
Great Fish!
It is my duty as a bona fide seafood lover to seek out
and experience all establishments who profess to dabble or specialize in the
art of preparing this special culinary delight. Most of us will agree that this
type meal, over and above all others, has biblical ties. If you read the bible
you certainly remember the passage when Christ fed approximately 5,000
followers with two fish and five loaves of bread. That passage has led to many
pantries that are set up to feed the poor and hungry just has he did over two Centuries
ago. Well, I was not poor or destitute when I began to scan the streets of my
hometown Miami for some great seafood.
My search ended when I came across Snapper's Fish
and Chicken off N.W. 17th Avenue and 53rd
Street which is just over only two miles from where I grew up off 74th
Street near Liberty City. This area experienced its first influx of Blacks
in 1937 after the second Federal housing project built in the United
States -- Liberty Square (a.k.a. Pork and Beans Projects) -- was completed.
It became one of the most sought after places to live in the 1940's and 1950's.
The area grew geometrically in the 1950's and 1960's after the
displacement of Blacks from Overtown (Colored Town) near Downtown
Miami due to the construction of I-95. Miami was first in our
nation to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with an organized
parade which today takes place along nearby N.W. 54th Street.
You can learn more about the history of this and other areas of the Magic
City on the upcoming QCT Miami
Black Heritage Toursm.
My search ended when I came across Snapper's Fish
and Chicken off N.W. 17th Avenue and 53rd
Street which is just over only two miles from where I grew up off 74th
Street near Liberty City. This area experienced its first influx of Blacks
in 1937 after the second Federal housing project built in the United
States -- Liberty Square (a.k.a. Pork and Beans Projects) -- was completed.
It became one of the most sought after places to live in the 1940's and 1950's.
The area grew geometrically in the 1950's and 1960's after the
displacement of Blacks from Overtown (Colored Town) near Downtown
Miami due to the construction of I-95. Miami was first in our
nation to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with an organized
parade which today takes place along nearby N.W. 54th Street.
You can learn more about the history of this and other areas of the Magic
City on the upcoming QCT Miami
Black Heritage Toursm.
